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Whether it’s through Reiki therapy or music, Penn Medicine’s piano man is most interested in helping patients in whatever they are going through.

Every other Saturday morning for the past couple of years, Wise, Vice President of Finance at Chester County Hospital, has spent two or three hours with the veterans who occupy the hospice at the medical center. Much of the time, he just listens.

When Amita Sehgal, PhD, says that time flies, she really means it. Her work, which centers on the 24-hour rhythms that drive animal behavior, is mainly done in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, and aims to provide a better understanding of how and why we sleep.

PARS is an all-female workshop led by clinicians, scientists, and medical students for high school students interested in exploring the world of health care and medicine, particularly reproductive science.

Sophisticated, computational algorithms may soon be helping physicians determine when and which patients will advance to Alzheimer’s with greater accuracy—and in a much faster timeframe than before.